Baseball: Three Rivers Rallies Past Kerwins

Three Rivers’ Caleb Knight singled home Brody Clay with the go-ahead run Friday to cap a two-out, three-run rally and give the visitors a 7-6 win over the Sportsmen at at Forsgren Field at Evans Boys & Girls Club.

The Sportsmen went ahead, 6-4, in the sixth in the opener on RBI singles by Houston Kennedy and Nate Whitson. But with Whitson at second and nobody out, with Clay pitching in relief of starter Shawn Troutman, retired the next three hitters and got three outs in the seventh to earn the win.

Reliever Hayden Headley retired the first two batters to open the seventh, but Helsley homered to narrow the deficit to 6-5.

Dan Wear singled and Clay walked, extending the inning for Tim Smithson. The Three Rivers first baseman, who was 3-for-4 with an RBI triple, singled to left to tie the game and Knight followed with an RBI single to snap the tie.

By the time Prieur brought on reliever Jordan Miller, the damage was done.

“Every time they got a lead, we were able to scratch out a few runs and we did some good things to get those runs,” Prieur said. “That seventh inning, we probably should have made a change the batter before, but we left him (Headley) out there. This is a good team we played, and they (Three Rivers) took advantage of it.”

Three Rivers (23-9) scored twice in the second and third innings against Kerwins starter Chris Hunt. The Greenwood right-hander allowed six hits and four runs in the second and third innings.

The Sportsmen scored twice in the second on Hayden Harvey’s RBI grounder and Toby Richard’s RBI double.

Kerwins tied the game in the fifth without a hit. With one out, Evan Fincher hit a grounder that rolled under the legs of third baseman Clay. The ball then skipped under the legs of left fielder Jack Christian, allowing Fincher to take third.